The Ile-de-France regional health agency on Monday gave "the firm order" to hospitals and clinics to deprogram 40% of their medical and surgical activities.

The consequence of a health situation which is stretching, with the increasingly pressing threat of a reconfinement, as the specialist Djillali Annane affirms it on Europe 1.

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Already in effect on weekends in the Nice region and in Dunkirk, will confinement soon apply to Ile-de-France residents?

The question arises, as the health situation linked to the coronavirus has deteriorated in the most populous region of France.

As a result: the Île-de-France ARS has given "the firm order" to hospitals and clinics to deprogram 40% of their least urgent medical and surgical activities to increase capacity, with a target now set at 1.577 resuscitation beds.

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For Professor Djilali Annane, head of the intensive care unit at the Hôpital-Poincaré de Garches, all the indicators are indeed in red.

"The deprogramming that is taking place gives us a little air temporarily, but if the number of patients continues to increase, this additional reserve will not be sufficient", warns the specialist on Europe 1.

Relieve the tension

According to him, "it will therefore probably be necessary to reconfine, even if the government has no desire to go through this drastic measure again. Measures should be taken now to ensure that the tension falls in ten days."

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In the last week alone, the number of critically ill admissions increased by 31% daily, which means between 80 and 90 more patients each day.

There are as many intensive care patients in Île-de-France as six days before the peak of the second wave, last November.

But at that time, the contaminations were decreasing because the country was re-confined.

This time, the concern is much greater because neither the country nor the region is reconfigured, with contaminations on the rise.